Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Nokia to Exit Symbian, Low-End Phone Businesses in North America
Nokia plans to stop selling both feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the United States and Canada focus exclusively on Windows Phone devices and smart phones. “When we launch Windows Phones we will essentially be out of the Symbian business," Nokia President Chris Weber says. “The reality is if we are not successful with Windows Phone, it doesn’t matter what we do (elsewhere).”
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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